Leopold

(male) From an Old French name of Germanic (Frankish) origin, from liut ‘people’ + bold ‘bold, brave’. The first element was altered by association with Latin leo ‘lion’. A name of this origin may have been introduced into Britain by the Normans, but if so it did not survive long. It was reintroduced to Britain from the Continent towards the end of the 19th‐century in honour of Leopold, King of the Belgians (1790–1865) and uncle of Queen Victoria, to whom he was an influential adviser in her youth: she named one of her sons after him.